Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (theologian)

Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (before 1756)

Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (born August 24, 1708 in Pfullendorf ; † August 16, 1775 in Breslau ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Friedrich Eberhard Rambach was a son of pastor Georg Heinrich Rambach (1670–1731). In 1721 he went to the grammar school in Gotha and in 1727 to the University of Halle to study theology . In 1730 he became a teacher at the pedagogy , in 1734 adjunct of the deacon of experts . In 1736 he gave a trial sermon to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I and got a job from him in Teupitz . In 1740 Rambach became a deacon at the Marktkirche in Halle and in 1745 at the Heiligengeistkirche in Magdeburg . Here he became pastor in 1750, and a year later he was appointed preacher and consistorial councilor. In 1756 he went back to Halle as pastor at the Marktkirche and superintendent in the first Saalekreis. In November 1766 he succeeded Johann Friedrich Burg (1689–1766) in Breslau as pastor at the Elisabethkirche , senior consistorial councilor and inspector of the Lutheran churches in the principality of Breslau . In February 1772 Rambach had a stroke in the pulpit, from which he however recovered again. After another stroke hit him at the end of 1773, he waited every day for its end.

The theologian Johann Jakob Rambach was his son. His son Friedrich Eberhard was a philologist .

literature

• Iu:  Rambach, Friedrich Eberhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 763-765.

Web links

• Works by and about Friedrich Eberhard Rambach  in the German Digital Library
• Entry in the database of the Francke Foundations

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Ludwig Herrnschmidt	Senior Pastor at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women 1756–1766	Carl Tobias Jetzke